A patch of tender green seedlings emerged from the field where wheat had just been planted. They were thin and short, but very cute. Lin Man squatted there and looked at them for a while, scratching and poking them, just like leeks.
When she planted wheat for the first time, she planted all the seeds she could. There were all kinds of plants in the field. She thought the field was full of leeks or weeds and almost pulled them out.
She went to take a look at other fields and found that they were all growing well. Normally, they should have been watered and fertilized, but because Guan Guan generously shared his spiritual energy with the fields, she didn't have to worry about anything in this field now. She just had to plant and not take care of it. She didn't need to provide any water or fertilizer separately. She just had to wait for thinning out the seedlings and harvesting.
Lin Man went out of the space to brush his teeth and wash his face, grabbed an apple to chew at home, and then chewed two dried sweet potatoes as breakfast.
She went to the fields first.
The cabbage fields and experimental fields with the soul-locking formation grew particularly well. The seedlings grown in the experimental fields have been transplanted one after another, but they wilted as soon as they came out, and many of them died. Lin Man knew that this was because they had no spiritual nourishment. This cannot go on, otherwise people will find out.
She came to the experimental field, where many branches had grown. An elderly man was taking care of them. Lin Man gave him some mulberry branches and said, "These are mulberry branches I just brought back from the north. Try planting them."
"Okay!" The old man wiped the mud off his hands and took it carefully.
"Oh, here are some wheat seeds. Try planting them." The old man took them with surprise, examined them carefully, and said, "This is winter wheat, right? Normally, it should be planted in autumn and harvested in spring, but with the weather now... well, we can only try planting them."
Okay, Lin Man thought, it will take a full month to plant in the space.
Lin Man went to the grain field with the soul-locking formation again and took a look. Well, the crops were growing very well. Then she went to the hospital and to the three pregnant women. She knew that everything was fine during the days she was away and the soul-locking formation was working every day.
She went back to the mountain and went to the workshop of the supernatural person.
There weren't many people around at the moment, so she asked the person in charge about the past two days. The person in charge was a middle-aged psychic named Yue Wenshang, a name that sounded like a cultured person. He was also quite educated and a teacher at the school. It was quite rare for a psychic to be a teacher, and his ability made him very popular with the students. He could conjure up colorful brushes, so his classes were always filled with beautiful and colorful blackboard notes, and he didn't waste chalk. However, the words he wrote with his ability would dissipate on their own after about five minutes.
Lin Man didn't think much of this man at first, but because he was so amiable and could get along with those bad-tempered or eccentric psychics, people didn't want to give him a hard time because of his good temper, so they let him take charge of the job. But now, seeing that he was a fair-skinned man with a good appearance, and was a colleague of Chen Yu, he became moved and looked at him carefully.
Yue Wenshang was originally smiling, but the more he looked at him, the more strange it seemed: "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Lin Man shook his head. "Everything went well these past two days?"
"No one disobeys the management, it's just that they don't come here often. Basically, they find time every day to communicate and see the changes in each other's jade."
"That's fine, as long as it doesn't interfere with the work." Lin Man looked at the jade in the hands of the psychics present. When they were given the jade, they were all sharp, irregular pieces of jade. Now, each piece had become rounder and duller, and the color had faded. Two of them had the roundest and palest jade. Obviously, they were the best, but they were still a long way from completely changing the jade quality to the level of being used as warning symbols.
Lin Man held the two jade stones in her hands and circulated her spiritual energy. After a while, the jade stones became a little rounder and the color became a little lighter. Everyone looked at this scene, some were envious and some sighed. They had a better understanding of Lin Man's strength. She achieved a level that they could not reach in several days in just a few minutes. Is she still a human being?
Lin Man returned the jade, encouraged them to keep up the good work, and went to the small room next door where the bullet-making machine was.
She plugged in the power, inserted a piece of irregular jade the size of a full picture, entered the parameters, and started it. There was a whirring sound, and a bullet-shaped jade fell down and landed in a small basket padded with soft cloth. Lin Man picked it up and it was still warm.
The machine could produce one bullet per minute, which wasn't very fast, but it was much faster than manual labor. Lin Man sorted through the jade pieces he had and used the smaller, lower-quality ones first.
By the time she had finished sorting and arranging the jades, a basket of bullets had already appeared in front of her. She put them one by one into a box, and when she had collected a hundred pieces in a box of ten by ten, she started processing them.
In June, including an order she was supposed to have, she planned to ship out 10,000 bullets, so she was very busy.
Of course, no matter how busy she is, she can't forget her wheat. As the wheat in the space grows day by day, Lin Man also worries about their harvest. The reason why she didn't plant wheat in the first place was because of the harvesting problem.
For this, Lin Man went out specially and spent some time to find a wheat harvester, but it turned out to be broken and Lin Man didn't know how to fix it.
There is a rice harvester in the base, but Lin Man can't get it into the space, right?
Lin Man was busy and worried at the same time. On June 10th, someone made qualified jade.
It was a round, but not particularly regular, transparent jade bead. Lin Man was very happy. In addition to the points he deserved, he also rewarded the man with a chicken. As a result, there were seven or eight people eating the chicken that day. It turned out that they took turns using their special powers to process the jade, and only then did they complete such a precious gem in twenty days.
The others followed suit and worked together to complete a jade bead and gave it to Lin Man, who rewarded him with half a chicken.
The third one, a quarter of a chicken.
The fourth one, a chicken leg and a chicken wing.
Oh, the rest of the chicken was sold to someone else by Lin Man, so it couldn’t be wasted.
As the rewards became smaller and smaller, the psychics became more obedient and no longer anxiously asked others to help them process their jade beads. Instead, they either quietly completed a jade bead by themselves, or worked in a fixed group.
According to current statistics, a coin-sized jade bead takes about 20 days to make, and the points earned from one bead are roughly equivalent to a quarter of a chicken or ten eggs. This is the most cost-effective job in the base, and it's a job that no psychic would be uninspired. They need to eat, too, and they crave the spiritual energy in chicken and eggs.
So starting from the end of June, Lin Man began to collect one or two jade beads every day. She was very happy, but the chicken coop could not withstand her damage.
Fortunately, after the soul-locking formation was set up, the roosters, hens and chicks grew better. The hens laid eggs diligently and incubated them. Batches of fluffy chicks hatched and grew flesh very quickly. As for the roosters... except for the few kept for breeding, they had to be slaughtered every two or three days.
Seeing that there were only a few grown roosters left, Lin Man thought that for a long time to come, roosters and eggs would still be the main motivation for people with special abilities, so she used her points to buy a hen and some eggs and took them back to raise them herself.
The eggs were all replaced with those from the space. The hen was worried that people would find out, so she didn't replace them with her own flock. She could then sneakily stuff some eggs from the space into the flock. She wouldn't be discovered, right?
Lin Man formed spiritual seals on these jade beads one by one and set up some soul-locking formations. His target was naturally the experimental fields and new crops.
There was actually a particular problem with setting up a formation in the fields: the jade beads couldn't be buried too shallowly, otherwise they'd be dug out by someone working on the field. This forced Lin Man to secretly dig deep pits, and then carefully restore them to their original state. So, Lin Man wasn't very keen on this task. She figured she'd just finish the formation and save the jade beads for a larger one later.
By the end of June, Lin Man, who was always easily distracted by this and that, finally completed 10,000 bullets, and the wheat in the space turned golden yellow.
It was just a piece of land of about ten square meters. After Lin Man couldn't get suitable harvesting tools, he simply did the harvesting himself using his mental power.
She first cut the wheat and patted it repeatedly on the ground to make as many grains as possible fall off. Due to the lack of strong sunlight, this method had little effect. So she grabbed and separated twenty or thirty stalks of wheat, and divided twenty or thirty strands of mental power in her mind, each running towards a stalk of wheat, and like a knife, she cut off the grains one by one.
Brush, swish, swish.
Like a swarm of locusts, the grains on the wheat stalks disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, falling onto the linen cloth on the ground.
In the end, they only got about 20 kilograms of wheat. Lin Man generously took 19 kilograms to eat and left only 1 kilogram for seeds.
But how should I eat these 19 kilograms?
Lin Man asked his mother for help.
Chen Yu thought for a moment and said, "Aren't you going to give it to Lin Cheng? If anything else is inconvenient, just make cookies. I just don't have an oven... This isn't difficult either, just fry them."
"Ah, didn't you say you could make malt sugar?"
Chen Yu said, "It must have glutinous rice."
Glutinous rice... Forget glutinous rice. They don't even have rice. The reunion base might have glutinous rice, but I don't think it would taste good. So maltose and the like are just thoughts.
Seeing her wilted appearance, Chen Yu smiled and said, "But it seems that we can use corn or sweet potatoes instead of glutinous rice. I have never made that before, but the process should not be much different. Let's try it."
Lin Man suddenly perked up: "Okay!" Then she realized that her mother had teased her.
She was a little confused. Why was he teasing her? What was wrong with wanting candy?
Because they were worried about not doing it well, they only soaked one pound of wheat the first time, washed it, and then soaked it in water to grow sprouts.
This process takes three or four days outside, so they moved it inside. First, they soaked the wheat grains, then watered them several times with warm water until they sprouted green and yellow sprouts about a finger long.
The material they used instead of glutinous rice was corn. They also took a pound of corn kernels, soaked them until they expanded, steamed them until they were soft, and then took them out and let them cool until they were still hot to the touch.
The next step is fermentation. Mix the corn kernels and chopped wheat malt and ferment for about six hours. Then put them into a clean burlap bag and squeeze out the juice, which is a little yellow. Then boil the juice, stirring it while boiling. The water content will become less and less, and the color will become darker and darker, until it is enough to be drawn into threads.
Lin Man made his first candy in his life. Smelling the sweet taste, mixed with the aroma of wheat and corn, he felt very happy.
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